Valentine - 2018

PHFT CO-CREATIVE OFFICER JEFFREY: For the next edition, we decided to bring back Cillian Colby Hugh Braxton and his boyfriend Ohi'a again. We didn't want to be quite so fetishy this time.

PHFT CO-CREATIVE OFFICER JAKE: Yeah, we were aiming for something more romantic, but also still sexy. And they're used to doing scantily-clad sword-and-sorceror stuff, so they didn't have any problem with that. Well, I mean, after the last two, what with the corset and the bare butt, a heart-shaped tub with water and candles that hid everything must have been a piece of cake. Apart from the extreme moisturizing that you have to do after more than one or two takes, because you get all dried out and wrinkly and stuff.

JEFFREY: Er ... yes, well, we also thought that this time, it would be nice to see his boyfriend's face, since he's only been a reflection and a pair of legs up to now.

JAKE: And he's still a reflection, but at least a reflection with a face. And clothing. And hands. And a crotch.

JEFFREY (sighing heavily on recording): ... Really, you can stop helping at any time.

--I. Noah Lott, professor of current history, comparative and modern mythology and modern media studies, Serenity Falls University, pour homme: a modern company plays with gender (Serenity Falls: SFU Press)

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I suspect side-eye was involved in Jeffrey's second comment.

Featuring Braxton M5 by Male-M3dia, transferred to G3M with GenX, and his Aiden-Cillian-Colby-Hugh heads, in order of percentage. Probably as far as he goes, given that both his morphs and his texture seem to have had issues in the update. He is -- admittedly, just barely -- too muscular for the LegacyUV geografts not to be visible in that pose, so I sent his texture through Texture Transformer. His groinal region, which has some fairly thick (but distinct) hair as part of the texture, wound up with a weirdly visible triangular cutout area that had to be hidden with lots of hair. (And, well, water and candles.) His morph ... I'm not sure. Looking at previous versions, his face very technically came through OK -- he still looks facially like himself -- but it feels like his face is smaller while his actual head is bigger. He also seems to be brawnier, despite using the exact same morphs and proportions. Hair is Warrior Wet Hair, which more or less matches the length of his previous hairstyles.

Ohi'a's texture came through Texture Transformer just fine (in part because he got a few edits -- months and years ago, depending on which one you ask about). His morph I expected to look a bit different and not like he did before. I pulled out some -- not all -- of his Michael 5 and Genesis shapes, and let default G3M and Kimo 7 substitute. And perhaps I should have gone all the way either way, because close up (closer than this), his head look a bit wonkus. Michael 5's angularity in a battle royal to the death with Kimo 7's lack of same. He's wearing (... well. "wearing".) Lonely Woman shirt, crossfigured, along with the pants from SY Security! for G2M by SickleYield , because of the zipper morphs.